BusLogic FlashPoint LT Ultra SCSI Adapters Help Micron Set Disk WinMark 96 Benchmark Record.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 1996--When your goal is to out-perform the competition, particularly in the PC industry, you need an advantage. So when Micron put its P166 Millennia Plus into PC Magazine's test of 166MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium-based PCs from the likes of Dell, Digital, Gateway and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , it was confident that it had that advantage: it was the only system that had integrated BusLogic's new FlashPoint LT Ultra SCSI The designation for various high-speed SCSI interfaces. The original specification was Ultra SCSI, followed by Ultra2, Ultra3, etc. For details, see SCSI. host adapter. The result was a new performance record in PC Magazine's Disk WinMark 96 benchmark tests. In benchmarks conducted by PC Magazine Labs published in the January 23 issue, the Micron P166 Millennia Plus "boasting an advanced BusLogic Fast SCSI controller" received a Disk WinMark 96 score of 1,210 -- 40% faster than the "average" P100 desktops and 20% faster than the other P166 systems. "We are thrilled that FlashPoint LT helped the Micron P166 Millennia grab top honors in PC Magazine's Disk WinMark 96 benchmark tests. FlashPoint LT was specifically designed for `workstation-class' PCs running Windows 95, Windows NT and other powerful multi-threaded operating systems. FlashPoint LT allows these systems to meet the unique performance, ease-of-use and cost requirements of the serious power user," said Julian Elliott, BusLogic's vice president of marketing. "FlashPoint LT has proven BusLogic's commitment to provide OEMs with competitive, performance-driven I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output solutions that are affordable for their end-user customers." FlashPoint LT Innovation FlashPoint LT features BusLogic's new SeqEngine automation technology that reduces SCSI command overhead and the number of interrupts generated to the host CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . This SeqEngine technology, coupled with advanced bus mastering, significantly enhances performance in multi-threaded, graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to environments. FlashPoint LT fully supports the Ultra SCSI (Fast-20) specification, providing SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. data transfers of up to 20 MB/sec. to Ultra SCSI disk drives. FlashPoint LT offers broad peripheral compatibility with a wide range of SCSI devices such as hard drives, CD-ROMs, tape drives, removable disks, magneto-optical drives, juke boxes and scanners. Additionally, FlashPoint LT provides support for hard drives greater than eight gigabytes. FlashPoint LT can support up to seven SCSI devices either internal or external to the host system and is fully compatible with Ultra SCSI, SCSI-2 and SCSI-1 devices. FlashPoint LT is fully plug-and-play-capable, complying to the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). 2.1 and SCAM Level 1 specifications; features AutoSCSI, a utility allowing the user to customize key parameters of the adapter via a software interface to the resident system; and features GreenLogic, a power-saving feature which reduces power consumption when the SCSI bus is idle. Driver support is available for Windows 95, DOS/Windows, Windows NT, NetWare, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and OS/2. BusLogic's DOS Manager features an Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) An interface specification developed by Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA, that provides a common language between drivers and SCSI host adapters. ) layer, and a Win ASPI layer, making the adapter fully compatible with a wide range of available third-party software that enhance flexibility in configuring a SCSI solution. Founded in 1988, BusLogic Inc. is a leading supplier of high-performance bus mastered SCSI host adapters for desktop PCs and network servers. BusLogic has recently announced plans to merge with Mylex Corporation (NASDAQ/NM SYMBOL: MYLX), a leading producer of RAID technology and network management products. The merger, subject to approval by BusLogic shareholders and to normal closing conditions, is scheduled to close in January 1996. Upon completion of the transaction, BusLogic will continue to operate under its name and at its present location as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mylex. All BusLogic products are used by OEMs, systems integrators and VARs, and are available worldwide direct from BusLogic or through distributors and resellers. All products are backed by a responsive and flexible customer support organization. -0- Note to Editors: Product and company names used here are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Photos available upon request. CONTACT: BusLogic Inc., Santa Clara Julian Elliott/Elyse Phillips, 408/492-9090 or Walt & Sommerhauser Communications Paige Burgess/Lynne Wall, 408/496-0900 |
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